ASH Clinical News December 2014 | Page 63

TRAINING and EDUCATION Best Practices Continued from page 56 Guided by these six principles, the Task Force scored all suggestions and selected 10 semi-finalist items. Systematic literature reviews for each of the 10 semi-finalist items were then conducted. The Task Force then selected five recommendations to comprise the second half of ASH’s Choosing Wisely list. TABLE How to Calculate 4T Score Adam Cuker, MD, MS: Patients are scored based on four criteria: thrombocytopenia, timing of platelet count fall, thrombosis, and other potential causes of thrombocytopenia (below TABLE). Scores of 0-3, 4-5, and 6-8 are classified